Should athenahealth complete a deal to bring 607 employees into office space in the former Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas, the company would instantly become one of the biggest players in the region's burgeoning tech scene.

Those 607 jobs would make Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth the largest software employer in the city, according to data compiled by the Austin Business Journal. The fast-growing company provides cloud-based services for handling of electronic health records, physician practice management and care coordination.

A company spokesperson confirmed Friday that the company's ongoing expansion outside of Massachusetts represents new growth and would not negatively affect its local operations. “We are growing and growing in multiple cities, “ athenahealth spokeswoman Holly Spring said. “This is new growth and we are not moving any jobs.”

Founded in 1997 as a California birthing center named Athena Women’s Health, athenahealth has radically transformed and grown since then into a multi-billion dollar force in the electronic information management segment of the health care industry. It got that big by making big moves when the time was right, including an initial public offering in 2007 and a string of acquisitions of competitors and companies whose services complemented its own.

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